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Boys' Life

It's 12:21 p.m., and in the cafeteria at Wellesley Middle School, a rumor emerges. The average half-life of a rumor here is 12 minutes and […]

Book Him

To paraphrase Darwin, reinvention is the mother of iguanas. Adapt, learn to burrow, or perish like some clueless great auk. That's the creed of the […]

The Provocateur

Thomas Derrah, playing the title character in Shakespeare's Richard II, walked onstage near the start of each performance in an enormous, hooped Elizabethan dress and […]

Who's Up, Who's Down

Normally, this annual list is devoted to the wealthy and the elite. But these are not normal times. The recession and the war on terrorism […]

Traffic Report

You name your mess, and Bruce MacLeod has seen it. He's spent 23 years flying this circuit, hovering above the crystalline blue swimming pools of […]

They're Number 2

When members of the Democratic State Committee gather during an election year for one of their duller-than-dirt meetings, party chairman Phil Johnston customarily acknowledges any […]

The Kids Aren't Alright

Tiny MacKenzie Rose Corrigan was unconscious and struggling for life when paramedics arrived at the home of her babysitter on June 4, 2003. Bruised, bleeding […]

To the Last Drop

By now, Jim Koch could be forgiven for losing his passion, his ambition, his drive to brew what he will gladly tell you — over […]

Famous Last Words

Before he was making liberals seethe and NASCAR dads cheer on the Fox News yell-fest The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly cut his teeth as a […]

Murder, She Wrought

The first bullet smashed into Shirley Reine's chest as she climbed out of her Nissan Maxima. It knocked her to the concrete floor of her […]